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Which GTA game did you spend the most time with?

Being my first real GTA experience,
(I played the top-down series but I was young to remember)
Vice City for the atmosphere & San Andreas for the endless activities and the two-player mode.
 
Vice City definitely. Followed closely by GTA3.

Back in vice city and gta3 you could still have epic police chases. Now you can loose em by just jumping on the highway and going straight and then getting off the highway once you see others coming. Can even lose the helicopters with 5!stars easily. Made chases. Boring
 
San Andreas by far, Vice City also had a lot of time put into it. I will say though that it's most probably because I had a lot more free time than I do now.
 
Either Vice City or GTA 5, they gotta be close to each other, although I didnt finish Vice City, I was too young to "enjoy" it, and all I did was fool around instead of actually finishing the story. Yet the 80's vibe was my fav. so far
 
Definitely Vice City. It put the story in the background, amped up the setting and tone, and put in a ton of fun things and systems to play with. Probably 120+ hours. Not a fan of how story-driven the last two installments have been.

Setting and Systems >>>>>>> Story and Missions
 
V for sure, just because of how much there is to do, and because of how much time I spend playing games these days.

Before that, probably San Andreas, though I never beat it (I've never completed the story of a GTA game, though I can spend hundreds of hours on the ones I play) for similar reasons. Then GTAIV.

I only played GTA III for a short while when I was young. I've never played Vice City, and I don't really have an interest in playing it, though I would be interested in hearing why so many hold it in high regard. What does it feature that makes it so great?

Never played the top-down ones either.
 
Pretty sure I spent more time taking over gang territories in San Andreas than I did playing the rest of the series. That game was so mind-blowing in 2004.
 
San Andreas.

It started out with the big world and long-ass story. Then playing coop with my buddy all the time after school. Then I got the PC version, where MTA came in to take hours and hours of my life away.
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MTA was the absolute shit back in high school. Races with over 60 people over the hills of Las Venturas and through the mountains in southern San Fierro. I'd definitely use a time machine to go experience that again. This was before they had on-foot gameplay synced, so everyone was forced to be in a vehicle all the time. I lost interest when on-foot gameplay came in.
 
I think it's gonna be Chinatown Wars for the DS or GTA IV. GTA IV was the most tedious game I've ever played but Chinatown Wars? So good.
 
At this point, I'd say Vice City followed closely by 5.

I'm playing 5 online now, and still messing with the single player even though I finished the story, so it might eventually win out.
 
Spent the most time with IV, but it'll soon be surpassed by V. Played through III, VC and SA 3 or 4 times each. I play GTA games over and over.
 
Vice City, with San Andreas and GTA III a very close 1B and 1C, respectively. As far as game series go, GTA has consumed so much of my life it's not even funny - and worth every minute, even with IV's ridiculous friend system. I've just beaten GTA V for the 2nd time (PS3 and PS4) and will do so again on PC whenever I get around to upgrading.

That C64 intro for Vice City, though? Booting up the game and seeing that for the first time...
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It was everything.
 
Vice City was the game I put the most time into. When I was a wee child, a friend just got it and we played it all day for days. I don't remember them now, but I memorized all the cheat codes for it, especially flying cars and the weapon pack with the Katana. It was a great game.

San Andreas took up a bit less of my time, but it still took up a ton of it. I'd just drive around and see what I could find in the game. It was huge with tons to do and I loved it.

GTAV, on the other hand, I played the story and shelved it. It just felt too heavy handed.
 
With no disrespect to earlier GTA titles...I have spent way more time with GTAV. I have completed the story 3 times (2 of which were 100% completions). I havent really touched GTAO

I have put over 200Hrs into GTAV across the X360 and PS4. Still comtemplating whether or not it is worth my time triple dipping for the PC version in a couple of weeks (Although free to play GTAO sounds nice)
 
GTAV is the only one I finished, put about 50 hours into, with no online. Didn't play IV, and got reasonably far in 3, VC, and SA, but basically just remember them as good times with friends games.
 
IV by a long, long way. The SP is is sublime and I must have completed it up to 10 times. Tying in TBOGT; I must have sunk in way over 1000 hours in free mode and some racing on the side. My most played game all together most likely, and still jump back in today, though the servers are slowly dying sadly and modders still seem to ramapge and ruin the experience even today.

V kind of shit every thing previous GTA's had been building on and I've barely touched the game. III and SA took up most of my childhood and III still stands as my favourite but IV is like a perfect reimagining of it.
 
It's hard to tell since I no longer have some of the games or the save files for them so I can't really go back and check. My gut feeling though is that I spent the most time with GTA IV (I'd have to say at least 75 hrs, including time spent w/ the 2 DLC packs) followed by GTA V (according to RGSC I've played 37 hrs of single player w/75% completion and approx 15 hrs of GTA Online), GTA San Andreas, GTA III, and finally GTA Vice City which I remember playing at least 15 hrs of.
 
For me right now, it's IV & V. V will probably overtake it once the PC version drops.

For me, even though I played the PS3 version a lot too, the PC version of IV gave the game new life
when it decided to work properly
. Mods are the greatest thing for the PC versions of GTA. Niko driving away in a gifted Lava Red Lamborghini Aventador instead of an Infernus is just awesome to me.
 
Im still playing V


I beat the story last year but messing around online never gets old


I did play the crap out of gta 4 though until about 2011
 
IIRC it was III, followed closely by 2. I got about 2/3 of the way through III using cheats and realized it was boring as fuck vanilla...only did crazy armed pedestrian tank runs after that. I got up to the bowling date part of IV, laughed, sighed, then traded in the game.

Saints Row has completely obliterated my desire to play GTA ever again.
 
Dr. Black Jack said:
IIRC it was III, followed closely by 2. I got about 2/3 of the way through III using cheats and realized it was boring as fuck vanilla...only did crazy armed pedestrian tank runs after that. I got up to the bowling date part of IV, laughed, sighed, then traded in the game.

Saints Row has completely obliterated my desire to play GTA ever again.
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Probably San Andreas. I've spent loads of time in VC, 4 and 5. But I don't think any of them reached the heights that SA did.

I still have a 99.9% save file, missing one Oyster Clam or whatever they were, using a guide I went through it like 5 times to get that damn 100% with no luck, must have been a glitch or I must have been really blind. Anyway, I think I spend 10 hours alone playing poker at the Casinos with James Brown playing in the background.
 
Vice City with GTAV in a close second. I love all Rockstar games, but their games set in a time period other than present day such as RDR, VC and even L.A. Noire are just amazing.
 
Probably GTAV, I have been playing GTAV since the original release on PS360, I've never done more than 10% of the story mode in it though.
GTA IV would be a close second, played the multiplayer with my best friends for ever and I beat the storymode twice.
 
Definitely GTA III. I was thirteen and the only things I did at that time were skate, game, and build gunpla. I had a lot of time on my hands.
 
I played GTA IV for hours on end, still one of my favorite games from last gen. So much to do in the city and the characters made it worth it
 
Loved the world of vice city & would like them to go back to an 80's theme again.
Though gta v is the first I have been able to keep me going till the end from a gameplay point of view.
 
I must've spent over 100 hours with Vice City, which is probably the most that I've ever spent with a GTA game. Oh, modding GTA IV probably added an extra 20 to that game's tally. Vice City still comes out the winner, though.
 
I played alot of vice but I think its v. I spent alot of time with the 360 version (beat it tooled around in single player and got to level 30 in online). I probably put 200 hours or so into it. Then I bought the xbone version, beat the story, tooled around and played even more online. Since the current gen releases are a bit few and far between its been my game of choice since its release. By this time I've usually moved on to a new game, this hasnt happened yet and right now the next big game release Im Interested in is.....gtav on pc.
 
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